Cob Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. House. 5 related planning applications.
Cob Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-roof-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cob Cottage, 2 and 3, the Hollow, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, DT2 7HX
- OS grid reference
- SY 816 931
- Coordinates
- 50.73732, -2.26201
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A late 18th- to early 19th-century cottage, originally part of a terrace of three. Numbers 2 and 3 form what is now known as Cob Cottage. The walls are of cob construction and have been rendered with pebbledash. The roofs are thatched, with brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high. Number 2 has a part-glazed door within a porch covered in shingles. On the ground floor are two casement windows with cast iron fittings; the first floor has three casement windows, two with cast iron fittings and one with leaded lights. A single-storey lean-to extends from the north end. Number 3 has a modern stone porch with a flat roof and a modern metal casement window on the ground floor. The first floor has two casement windows with cast iron fittings. A thatched lean-to is attached to the south end.
Local climate
Cob Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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